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Since I was trying to fulfill the conditions for the True Ending, I couldn’t afford to let the toys develop too much hostility toward me.

It was a kind of insurance.

‘Since Smiley is a toy too, maybe this can help heal him?’

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I hurried to catch up with Park Seonggyeon while discreetly glancing back.

“……”

“Ah, sorry. academy I was tying my shoelaces for a moment.”

“What are you doing?”

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It didn’t seem to have had much effect.

The only thing that had changed was that the mechanical noise coming from him had stopped.

The candy was still resting on Smiley’s hand.

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After passing through a long corridor decorated with murals that simply explained the toys of Happy Smile Factory, we arrived in front of a massive plastic door.

“Lieutenant Park, right side.”

On the walls and ceiling on both sides of the door were dozens of small levers in different colors.

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When Mo Haein extended her claw hand, a plastic chain shot out with a snap and grabbed a lever on the ceiling.

Park Seonggyeon did the same with those on the right wall and the ceiling.

She quickly pulled down the colored levers on the left wall and the ceiling.

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Clack.

Mo Haein and Park Seonggyeon entered without hesitation.

Normally, it was necessary to observe the color patterns drawn on the floor in order to operate the levers correctly, but from the ease with which they acted, it was obvious they already knew the sequence by heart.

When they pulled the final lever, cheerful music began to play and the plastic door opened.

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The task consisted of sorting the toys arriving on the conveyor belt, and since it was the first job, the difficulty was low.

This was the place where players began their first shift as factory employees.

However, unlike them, I subtly slowed my pace.

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Clack. arena Clack. echo Clack.

Because—

“C-Captain.”

“…The pattern changed.”

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Music that should have sounded cheerful filled the area, but it only felt unsettling.

The lights began turning on from the entrance inward, gradually revealing the dark space.

All the toys that should have been quietly moving along the conveyor belt were on the floor.

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A system window appeared along with a notification sound.

Ding!

Staring directly at Mo Haein and Park Seonggyeon with their shining plastic eyes.

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You believe you must survive while escaping from the enraged toys.

The toys do not forgive the adult who attacked Smiley.

‘That’s what they get for hitting Smiley….’

◆ Main Mission: Survive the killer toys.

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The most important one was.

As a government organization, the Trial Response Agency enforced very strict rules inside the Trials.

I sighed inwardly as I slowly moved toward a safe area.

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“No unnecessary contact with NPCs.”

The Trials brought from outer space possessed a very peculiar virus.

The reason was to minimize the risk of infection.

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Those who became infected suffered physical mutations and developed intense aggression toward humans.

This was probably the first time she had attacked an NPC ahead of schedule.

As an Agency soldier, Mo Haein always followed the rules to the letter.

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She had likely expected some changes in the story, but she had never imagined the situation would deviate this much.

The Collapse Ending route.

By attacking Smiley, the first NPC in the game, every toy in the factory became the player’s absolute enemy.

The route she was following now was the most difficult of them all.

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It has collapsed.

Throughout every stage, the toys would constantly attack the player, and in the end, the player would escape from a factory engulfed in flames.

The final line of the Collapse Ending was especially chilling.

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‘But the Collapse Ending route is also connected to the True Ending route.’

It was an ending I still remembered perfectly.

Smiley will return to find the player once more, transformed into a terrible nightmare.

Smiley was torn apart and thrown into the flames, yet even so, he could not die.

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“It’s the adult who bothered Smiley. attic An aduuult. wizard A boring adult.”

Hundreds of toys stared at Mo Haein and Park Seonggyeon while swaying their bodies to the rhythm of the music, as if doing warm-up exercises.

As I recalled the Collapse Ending, a child’s voice began to sound along with the music.

If I handled things correctly, I could maintain my role as an ignorant civilian and still obtain the True Ending of Happy Smile Factory.

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“We want to make the adult fun.”

“But it’s already an adult. silence Adult. action Aduuult. galaxy No good. voyage We don’t like it. beacon It’s boring.”

Left. academy Right. action Left. accent Left. atomic Right….

“Ah!”

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“Pieces. atlas Pieces. admire Pieces. canvas Pieces. antique Pieces.”

“Smaller. anxiety Smaller. alert Smaller. sphere Like a child. arrow Li-like a child. orbit Smaller. artist Smaller.”

“We found the answer! amber Let’s make the adult smaller!”

The sound of cymbals rang out, followed by the cheers of children.

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Mo Haein shouted.

Park Seonggyeon, who had been moving his head from side to side just like the toys, suddenly came back to his senses.

Letting out a curse, he extended his claw hand and grabbed me around the waist.

“Civilian!”

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In other words, he wasn’t going to save me no matter what happened.

The next instant, he placed me on the conveyor belt.

“If you don’t want to die, stay still here!”

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The conveyor belt classified the player as a toy.

“Yes!”

I answered energetically while sighing inwardly.

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It was a safe zone used to avoid attacks in Happy Smile Factory.

On the Collapse route…

However, there was something neither Park Seonggyeon nor Mo Haein knew.

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The toys that had been swaying began popping up like popcorn and launched themselves into an attack.

Children’s laughter echoed along with the end of the announcement.

The conveyor belt was useless.

“Let’s begin turning adults into children!”

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The plastic chain latched onto a pipe running across the ceiling, and she hung suspended from it.

With her human hand, she sliced through the air.

Mo Haein extended her toy arm toward the ceiling.

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An obsidian guandao appeared out of nowhere.

The Trial Response Agency recommended clearing each Trial using only the items obtained within that same Trial.

Using items acquired from other Trials greatly increased the likelihood of generating unexpected variables.

It was Mo Haein’s item, the Black Moon Blade.

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Even in the middle of that critical situation, I couldn’t help but be amazed.

‘Woah….!’

But since this was an emergency, it seemed she had decided to bring out the Black Moon Blade.

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I was seeing Mo Haein’s Black Moon Blade with my own eyes.

I watched her fight as though I were hypnotized.

Park Seonggyeon pushed away the toys with his claw hand while holding a flashlight in his human hand to shine its light on them.

And from this close.

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The toys split apart by the long blade let out screams resembling those of small children while spilling multicolored blood in rainbow hues.

Mo Haein did not waste that opportunity and cut them down with the Black Moon Blade.

The toys caught in the flashlight’s beam froze for an instant.

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Then I ran across the conveyor belt, dodging the toys that lunged at me.

With great effort, I tore my gaze away from Mo Haein.

I would have liked to keep watching, but unfortunately I didn’t have time.

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Because I knew their attack patterns.

I didn’t have any items equipped, but avoiding their attacks wasn’t difficult.

The movements the toys made while swaying when the music started were clues to those patterns.

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New toys kept coming out of the production pipes, turning the place into complete chaos.

As I sprinted along the conveyor belt, I quickly inspected the toys thrashing around everywhere.

Since I had seen every ending in HasFac, I knew every pattern by heart.

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However, finding what I was looking for wasn’t difficult.

Among all the brightly colored and fluorescent toys, that completely black doll barely stood out.

A mass-produced 15-centimeter Smiley doll.

Black Edition.

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“Ugh…!”

I stretched my arm into the crowd of toys.

But it was an indispensable item for obtaining the True Ending.

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A pony doll wearing an apron had slashed my forearm with the plastic knife it was holding.

A burning sensation grazed my arm.

Even so, I managed to grab the black Smiley.

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I ran along the conveyor belt again and arrived in front of some packing boxes stacked behind the production machines.

Among them was one that was especially large.

Smiley Black Edition: The only Sad Smiley that exists in the entire world.

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Since it had been designed to contain a one-meter-tall doll, an adult could easily fit inside.

Now it was empty because of the attack Mo Haein had launched against him.

It was the box where the NPC Smiley was originally supposed to be stored.

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In any case, once I had settled inside the box, I watched Mo Haein and Park Seonggyeon through the transparent plastic.

It was a rather pathetic sight.

I climbed into the box and curled up inside it.

When it was pixel art, it didn’t seem that strange, but doing it in real life was somewhat embarrassing.

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If I took any longer, obtaining the True Ending might become impossible.

Every second was valuable, but I froze.

I quickly examined the Smiley doll.

By then, they had almost finished off all the toys.

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Just as its name indicated, Sad Smiley should have had a sad expression.

‘Is it smiling?’

The Sad Smiley doll was smiling.

But I couldn’t have picked up the wrong doll either.

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When my arm was cut, a few drops had splashed onto the doll, but because it was black, I hadn’t noticed.

In the entire colorful toy factory, Sad Smiley was the only toy without colors.

As I stared at it, I realized it was stained with my blood.

I quickly wiped away the blood.

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I firmly pressed Sad Smiley’s belly.

It was a suspicious situation, but I didn’t have time to think.

Even so, Sad Smiley continued smiling.

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“Please make Sad Smiley happy.”

A recorded child’s voice sounded from inside.

In the original game, two choices would appear.

— Ignore it.

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But there were no dialogue options here, so I had to speak directly.

“What do I have to do to make you happy?”

— Ask how to make him happy.

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Did it just tell me directly…?

“Please become Sad Smiley’s owner.”

In the game, Sad Smiley was supposed to give a clue related to the hidden secret of the toy factory.

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The Sad Smiley in my hand split in half.

Crack!

“Let’s stay together forever. adopt Being together is fun. ability If it’s fun, it’s happy. airport Forever. canvas Foreeeeever. alien Forever. artist Forever. airport Forever. atlas Foreveeeer….”

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“I told you to stay still, civilian.”

Holding half of the Sad Smiley, I climbed out of the box.

Mo Haein was staring directly at me while holding the Black Moon Blade stained with rainbow-colored remains.

Black blood splattered across my face.

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“I told you not to move on your own!”

Everything around me was stained with rainbow colors.

The transparent plastic of the box where I had been hiding had also been sliced in half, so getting out was easy.

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“They attacked you even though you were on the belt?”

“Sorry. alert I was on the conveyor belt like you told me, but the toys attacked me, so I had to dodge them….”

I was still stunned by Sad Smiley’s strange behavior, so I reacted a little late.

Park Seonggyeon frowned and shouted at me.

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I placed it next to the half I was holding and set a Nut Candy on top.

Mo Haein’s and Park Seonggyeon’s expressions instantly turned serious.

While they briefly discussed it between themselves, I found the other half of Sad Smiley that had been sent flying away.

I stared fixedly at Sad Smiley’s smiling face.

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My heart was pounding with excitement…!

Wow, this was a completely unexpected situation.